KARACHI: Police on Saturday submitted the final charge sheet in the Regent Plaza fire case stating that the fire safety system in the hotel, installed over 20 years ago, was outdated.
The hotel’s chief executive officer, Muzaffar Baweja, managing director Zubair Baweja, chief security officer retired Major Mohammad Saad, chief engineer Arshad Mughal and supervising engineer Saleem Pervez have been booked for manslaughter after 12 people, including five doctors, were killed and around 80 others were wounded in a huge fire at the hotel on Dec 5, 2016.
The investigation officer, Amir Altaf, filed the final investigation report before the court of a judicial magistrate (south).
The report said that the fire and safety system, installed in the hotel in 1994, had become dysfunctional. Civil defence officials had also not validated the documents produced by the suspects regarding fire-fighting equipment at the hotel.
The police report further said that one operator of the CCTV cameras, who had no idea about fire and safety, was present in the control room at the time of the incident.
The smoke-detection system was installed last year only at the mezzanine and first floors of the hotel, it concluded.
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